Things look good for a release of 2.1a2 this week; we're aiming for Thursday night. I won't be in town (speaking to the press at LinuxWorld Expo in New York) but Jeremy will handle the release process and the other PythonLabs folks will assist him. Tomorrow Fred will check in his weak references after making some changes (mostly making it more Spartan :-) that I suggested in a code review. After that, I think we're good for the second (and last!) alpha release; and enough has changed (e.g. nested scopes, lots of setup.py changes, flat Makefile) to warrant going ahead now. Now is the time for those last-minute bugfixes that you're all so famous for! I propose a checkin freeze for non-PythonLabs folks Wednesday midnight US west coast time, to give Jeremy c.s. enough time to build the release and give it a good work-out. (An internal freeze is up to Jeremy to declare, but should probably take Tim's sleep cycle into account.) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) PS. I'll be out of reach from noon US east coast time tomorrow (Wednesday), traveling to New York by train. I probably won't check my email while out there; I'll be back Friday night.